Co-Founder of YouTube Joins Google Ventures

June 10, 2014

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Steve Chen, the co-founder and former chief technology officer of YouTube, has parted ways with fellow co-founder Chad Hurley, joining Google Ventures as an entrepreneur-in-residence. Mr. Chen and Mr. Hurley first met while working at PayPal in 1999, eventually founding the viral video platform that was sold to Google for $1.65 billion just one year after launch. Mr. Chen joins Google Ventures from AVOS Systems, an incubator that he founded with Mr. Hurley in 2011.